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May you find great value in these quotes by Dorothy Thompson.
Fear grows in darkness;
if you think there's a bogeyman around,
turn on the light.
- Dorothy Thompson
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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